LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eliza
On the 18th December last, the brig Eliza, of Montrose, drove from her anchors in Yarmouth roads and went on shore, during a violent gale from E.S.E. and heavy sea. The Gorles-ton seamen's life-boat was immediately launched and succeeded...
Loss of Memory
THE following story comes from the North of England. Two gentlemen were so convinced that each was accurate in a certain statement that they had a small wager on the result.
Naturally one lost, and our Organising Secretary...
Category: Donations
Ard Carna (3)
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 22nd August, 1935.
PAID £21,918 18s. 7d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 15th day of March, 1877, His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L.,...
Category: Annual Reports
RNLI News
Volunteer action awards TJie Whitbread Volunteer Action Awards are recognised as one of the UK's most prestigious community award schemes.
Fundraising and operational volunteers with the RNLI are eligible for the awards...
Category: Articles
Feature: Come Together
On the morning of Thursday 20 May a coach set off early from RNLI HQ in Poole, full of excited and ever-so-slightly nervous RNLI staff. They were destined for the Barbican Hall in London and a day of rare celebration. They were to Literally...
Category: Articles
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Xii—Trials
THROUGHOUT HER BUILDING a lifeboat is under the regular scrutiny of the RNLI's own hull, machinery and electronics overseers; she also receives periodic visits by Lloyd's Register of Shipping surveyors and an exceptionally high...
Category: Articles
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Atlantic 21 Was Launched on May 16 to Bring Back a Diver With a Badly Cut Head Who Had Been Injured While Working on the Wrecked Oil
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Atlantic 21 was launched on May 16 to bring back a diver with a badly cut head who had been injured while working on the wrecked oil tanker Eleni V. While Helmsman Michael Mitchell set course for the ILB station,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Royal Navy Inflatable Dinghy
Four divers snatched from explosives danger areaPrompt action by Whitby' s Tyne class lifeboat during the exploding of a war-time land mine has earned the Coxswain and crew a letter of thanks from the RNLI's chief of...